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Bruce Murphy: Milwaukee County Parks has oh so many friends
But so little funding. How did this contradictory, messy situation arise?

Jessica Strand: Milwaukee County’s replacement for the Public Safety Building prioritizes victim-witnesses
The replacement for the Public Safety Building and the renovated Historic Courthouse is being designed with fully separate, secure hallways, so that people in custody move through the building on entirely different paths than victims, witnesses and their families.

Mike McCabe: Mooching us to financial ruin
In the time it takes to read this article, our nation will be some $22 million deeper in debt.

Dave Zweifel: Trump’s chaos is all part of the plan
The administration’s strategy has nothing to do with solving the nation’s problems. Instead it’s a three-pronged approach to distract Americans while it dismantles the government that could address those problems.

James Wigderson: We defeated socialism!
The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to ensocialism. No, really.

Steven Walters: It’s been a hot summer for news
An insider’s take on Canadian tariffs and Wisconsin, Elon Musk, commutations and elections.

Phillip Connelly: Wisconsin should boost support for mental health clubhouses
By formally incorporating and expanding the Clubhouse model, the state can build on its progress. With stronger support from policymakers, they can work for far more Wisconsinites.

Gregory Humphrey: Data Centers are coming, let’s plan smartly
The question before us is whether we build them in ways that strengthen both the national interest and international requirements and work in tandem with the local communities asked to host them.

Gregg Hoffmann: Affordable, reliable, balanced energy
If you seek a balanced approach to issues, you might take a look at the Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future.

Spencer Black: Trump’s destruction of public lands will be a damning part of his legacy
President Donald Trump is robbing us of our incredibly valuable natural heritage that is preserved on our public lands — lands we all own as Americans

Natalie Eilbert: Jane Alexander on the arts, the environment and hope for Gen Z
Jane Alexander, the legendary actress of “The Great White Hope” fame will speak at Cap Times Idea Fest with David Maraniss.

John Nichols: Celebrate Dolly Parton’s working-class solidarity
Dolly Parton lifted up the stories of working-class Americans with an artistry — and an instinctual solidarity — that merits celebration on Labor Day.

James Wigderson: Facing Van Orden
The insurrectionist congressman calls a meeting.

John Torinus: Kwik Trip’s ingenuity, principles spell 1000 stores
Kwik Trip’s unique blend of building blocks in its business plan has created a Wisconsin success story.

James E. Causey: If you are going to yell don’t come. My 6-year-old’s wisdom.
A Milwaukee parent tripped a 9-year-old during a youth football game. The incident reminded me of a lesson my daughter taught me years ago.

Larry Witzling: Downtown Milwaukee boulevard for I-794, completing MARK rail plan will build city
Combined with gateway district for intermodal station, it could transform city’s economy.

Tom Barrett, JB Van Hollen, Scott Klug and Michael Tate: Election officials must give skeptics fewer reasons to doubt
Wisconsin elections are safe and secure. The evidence has demonstrated that. The challenge now is making the process worthy of the same confidence and giving skeptical voters fewer reasons to doubt.

Bill Barth: Campaign ’26: Hope in the Heartland
Whether it’s Hong’s loss in Wisconsin or the derailing Trump Train in rural Illinois, it’s part of an old story. Political activists can’t read the larger room. They gather in pods, where everybody sounds the same, then leave exhilarated that their worldview is ascendant.

Jessica McBride: David Crowley celebrated raising taxes on poor people with cake, and his ‘free stuff for inmates’ plan goes awry
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley was once so gleeful about raising taxes on poor people that he celebrated by cutting a cake.

Scott Niederjohn and Wyatt Eichholz: Strong foundations, untapped potential: Wisconsin’s economy
Exploring the mismatch between strong labor, business inputs and our lagging productivity and income outputs

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ examine the battle for control of the Wisconsin Legislature
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, review the upcoming races to control the Wisconsin Legislature and the issues that favor each party. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Sept. 18
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk discuss Tom Tiffany’s plane crash, the U.S. Supreme Court halting President Trump’s mail-in balloting restrictions, oral arguments before the state Supreme Court in two cases challenging the state’s congressional lines and more.